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A & K Metaxopoulos and Partners is considered a top IP, Media and Dispute Resolution full-service law firm in Greece. In its 70 years of expertise, our firm has handled a vast variety of cases, by representing key international and domestic clients of many industry sectors in complex matters relating to Copyrights / Patents / Trademarks as well as in various Corporate/Commercial issues and White-Collar Crime, both in consultancy and litigation terms.
The firm is the only Greek member of the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA). In view of its GALA membership, foreign major entities often request from our firm to review their planned promotional activities directed to the Greek market. The firm also provides detailed contributions regarding the Greek legal framework to various GALA Publications (Books and handouts) concerning Advertising Law, Privacy Law, Sweepstakes and Contests and other matters. We also contributed to the Advertising & Marketing 2024 Guide published by Chambers Global Practice Guides.
Our common goal to keep working as a team in order to serve our clients’ interests in the best possible manner, has been recognized by our peers. Most recently, The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 edition ranked our firm in IP (Top Tier), TMT (Top Tier), Dispute Resolution, White-Collar Crime and Commercial, Corporate and M&A and Chambers Europe 2024 edition also ranked us once again in TMT. Our firm has also been ranked among the Top Law Firms in Greece by “Top Ranked”, which especially recognized our firm in our areas of expertise, including IP, TMT, Patents, Dispute Resolution, Competition and Antitrust and White-Collar Crime. In addition, we have received praise from various publications, once again in the past year, such as Managing IP’s IP Stars, IAM Patent 1000, Media Law International (Tier 1), Patent & Trademark Lawyers Magazines, etc. Moreover, WTR 1000 in its 2024 edition has ranked our firm among the leading Greek law firms in trademark practice and recognized Kriton Metaxopoulos and Marilena Nikolaraki as Recommended Individuals.
Furthermore, our Managing Partner Kriton Metaxopoulos’ unique expertise and reputation led once again to his recognition as leading individual by Chambers Europe 2024 in Dispute Resolution and TMT. In addition to this, Kriton Metaxopoulos is listed in the Hall of Fame for Dispute Resolution and recognized as a leading individual in TMT, Intellectual Property and White-Collar Crime and as a Recommended Lawyer in Commercial, Corporate and M&A in The Legal 500 EMEA 2024, whilst our Partner Irini Daroussou was recognized as Next Generation Partner in Intellectual Property and Recommended Lawyer in TMT and Dispute Resolution. Additionally, other members of our Team recognized by The Legal 500 EMEA as Recommended Lawyers in various practice areas: Asterios Syssilas in Dispute Resolution, TMT and White-Collar Crime, Marilena Nikolaraki in Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution, Achilleas Christodoulou in Commercial, Corporate and M & A and White-Collar Crime and Elena Nikolarea in Intellectual Property and TMT and as a Rising Star in TMT.
In addition, IP Stars in its 2024 edition recognized once again the Lawyers of our Firm: Kriton Metaxopoulos as Leading Practitioner in Trademarks & Patents, Irini Daroussou as Leading Practitioner in Copyright and the only Greek IP Practitioner among the Top 250 Women in IP, Marilena Nikolaraki as Notable Practitioner and Elena Nikolarea as Rising Star. Marilena Nikolaraki was also the winner of the award Trademark Lawyer of the Year, by Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Women in Business Law Awards EMEA 2022.
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